First I’d like to thank Aileen Peek from the SLV Animal Welfare Society for her support and wisdom and supplies and all of the other people who have donated financially to purchase cat food, vet services and other items necessary to keep the abandoned and feral cats that we know about healthy, spayed, neutered (TNR), ear tipped and returned to where we found them.

We would also like to thank City Manager Heather Brooks and the Alamosa city council members for allowing us an audience and considering our concerns about revising the existing city ordinances. We know about calls and e-mails that the city receives from residents who have nuisance cats on their property. There are many of us available to work with the city as volunteers to solve the problems if we know what they are. The police officers don’t need to assume the burden of “fixing” the problem if we can help without confrontations.

Thanks also to Ruth Heide and the Valley Courier for coverage of these issues.

The last four days several veterinarians with two “Spay Mobiles” were in the Alamosa Road and Bridge building to perform TNR free with shots to 393 dogs and cats. There is another clinic coming to our area next month; time and place will be announced later.

We have had several hundred cats spayed and neutered over the past few years through a grant that was made available locally for those who were low income.

As always, call me if you need cat food, bottles or milk for orphan kittens, have cats or kittens to give away, want kittens for pets, etc. Call me. I might not have all of the answers but I know the one who does. Thank you and God bless you!

Donna K. Ditmore, manager for Cat Welfare Alpha Humane Org., nonprofit, tax exempt, 589-5952, 580-9078.